Jonathan Burnside
Biographic Data
| ID | 3987511 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Burnside |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Burnside |
| SIGNATURE | BURNSIDE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Professor of Biblical Law, Law School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Words of Wisdom, Words of Prophecy
The study of biblical law enables us to pursue justice. Its application involves selecting from a body of discourse and emerges not only from “rules” but from narrative and worldview. It also means internalising a fixed text and improvising a faithful response. It is shaped and constrained at every point by practical wisdom. Religious beliefs should not be excluded in principle and cannot be excluded in practice from a liberal democracy. As has a…
Prison Religion
Princeton : Princeton University Press ( 2009 ) 305pp. £19.95pb ISBN 978-0-691-13359-1 The focus of this book is a lawsuit brought in 2006 by Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AU) against Prison Fellowship Ministries (PFM), which operated a faith-based unit called the InnerChange Freedom Initiative (IFI) in the Newton Facility of the Iowa Department of Corrections. The central question was whether the provision of a religious-b…
God, Justice, and Society
Biblical law has long been seen as the foundational text of Western legal civilization. But what is the real meaning of the lex talionis and what, really, are the Ten Commandments? This book looks at aspects of law and legality in the Bible, from the patriarchal narratives in the Hebrew Bible through to the trials of Jesus in the New Testament. The book questions the biblical texts from the perspective of an academic lawyer and criminologist, and…
Relational Justice
The field of relational justice is playing an increasingly important role in government policy-making. In the light of widespread disillusionment with measures employed to tackle crime, this book takes up the theme at the heart of justice: the need to repair relationships damaged by crime, particularly those between victims and offenders
God, Justice, and Society
Biblical law has long been seen as the foundational text of Western legal civilization. But what is the real meaning of the lex talionis and what, really, are the Ten Commandments? This book looks at aspects of law and legality in the Bible, from the patriarchal narratives in the Hebrew Bible through to the trials of Jesus in the New Testament. The book questions the biblical texts from the perspective of an academic lawyer and criminologist, and…
Relational Justice
The field of relational justice is playing an increasingly important role in government policy-making. In the light of widespread disillusionment with measures employed to tackle crime, this book takes up the theme at the heart of justice: the need to repair relationships damaged by crime, particularly those between victims and offenders
Prison Religion
Princeton : Princeton University Press ( 2009 ) 305pp. £19.95pb ISBN 978-0-691-13359-1 The focus of this book is a lawsuit brought in 2006 by Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AU) against Prison Fellowship Ministries (PFM), which operated a faith-based unit called the InnerChange Freedom Initiative (IFI) in the Newton Facility of the Iowa Department of Corrections. The central question was whether the provision of a religious-b…
God, Justice, and Society
Biblical law has long been seen as the foundational text of Western legal civilization. But what is the real meaning of the lex talionis and what, really, are the Ten Commandments? This book looks at aspects of law and legality in the Bible, from the patriarchal narratives in the Hebrew Bible through to the trials of Jesus in the New Testament. The book questions the biblical texts from the perspective of an academic lawyer and criminologist, and…
Words of Wisdom, Words of Prophecy
The study of biblical law enables us to pursue justice. Its application involves selecting from a body of discourse and emerges not only from “rules” but from narrative and worldview. It also means internalising a fixed text and improvising a faithful response. It is shaped and constrained at every point by practical wisdom. Religious beliefs should not be excluded in principle and cannot be excluded in practice from a liberal democracy. As has a…
Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Economic Justice (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Criminology (2 works)